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...stuff," he boasts of his engineers in England. "I have made things that do horrible things to my face." He calls the Mach3--the first razor with racing stripes--his proudest achievement. It's not just the third blade, he explains. It's that they staggered the blades so each is progressively closer to the skin, dipped the ultra-thin blades in the same carbon that computer chips go into to make them stronger, and--here's the really big deal--made the blade pivot from the bottom, not the middle, forcing shavers to use it like a paintbrush. They...
...While it may not be doing much for Cousin Joe's gubernatorial aspirations, there is no doubt that John Junior's attack has boosted sales of the magazine, which hit newsstands today. And considering the nude portrait of America's most eligible former batchelor printed alongside, it seems the proudest boast in the Kennedy clan today is "ich bin ein beefcake...
...baseball's proudest moment then. It's still baseball's proudest moment, and I believe it will always be baseball's proudest moment."--Acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig, about Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color line 50 years...
...hard for Dole's allies to change destructive behavior when it reflects the instincts of which he's proudest. He not only likes talking to reporters, he wants to answer their questions honestly. It's why Dole says things like, "We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say." He doesn't fake well; Dole has consistently been reluctant to use a TelePrompTer, which lets him pretend to riff when he's actually reading a speech. Nor will he take advantage of symbolism that he finds sacred, like posing for campaign shots...
...although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. In 1982, Dole almost single-handedly reversed a large chunk of Reagan tax cuts in an attempt to control a ballooning deficit, and in 1983 he helped orchestrate the bailout of Social Security, which he lists as his proudest accomplishment. As the Tuesday deadline fast approaches, Dole is spending his last hours in the Senate receiving tributes from Senators and members of the House. And the tributes are glowing, offered up in terms that are usually reserved for posthumous delivery. Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institute calls Dole...